Kimsooja

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kimsooja
Video still from A Laundry Woman; Yamuna River, India, 2000
Born
Kim Soo-Ja

1957 (age 66–67)
Daegu, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materHongik University
Known forConceptual and performance art
Korean name
Hangul
김수자
Revised RomanizationGim Suja
McCune–ReischauerKim Suja

Kimsooja (Korean: 김수자; born 1957) was born in Daegu, South Korea.[1] Kimsooja is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist who travels between her three homes and places of work in New York City, Paris, and Seoul. In 1980 Kim graduated with a B.F.A in Painting from Hong-Ik University, Seoul and continued to pursue her M.F.A there, obtaining the degree in 1984 at the age of 27.[2] Her origin as a painter was a crucial starting point for the development of her art. That same year, she received a scholarship to study art at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, where she studied Printmaking. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1988 at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. Currently, her work is featured in countless international museums and galleries as well as public art fairs and other spaces. Her practice combines performance, film, photo, and site-specific installation using textile, light, and sound. Kimsooja's work investigates questions concerning the conditions of humanity, while engaging issues of aesthetics, culture, politics, and the environment. Her principle of ‘non-doing’ and ‘non-making,’ which follows a conceptual and structural investigation of performance through modes of mobility and immobility, inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor.[3][4]

Kimsooja's recent major projects include Sowing into Painting, Wanas Konst, Sweden,[3] Traversées\Kimsooja, Poitiers, France (2019-2020),[4][5] To Breathe, Public Commission for the new metro station Mairie de Saint-Ouen in Paris (2020), 21st century new stained-glass commission for the Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Metz, France (2021), Asia Society Triennial, New York (2020). Kimsooja has exhibited in major museums and institutions around the world, including Peabody Essex Museum (2019);[6] Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Chapel (2018-2019);[7] Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2018);[8] Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2017); MMCA Korea (2016); Centre Pompidou Metz (2015); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2015); Vancouver Art Gallery (2013);[9] Museum of Modern Art Saint-Etienne (2012); Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) (2012); Baltic Center for Contemporary Art Gateshead, UK (2009); BOZAR, Brussels (2008); Crystal Palace, Museum Reina Sofia, Spain (2006); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2005); Kunstmuseum Palast Düsseldorf (2004); Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon (2003); PAC Milan (2003); Kunsthalle Wein (2002); Kunsthalle Bern (2001); MoMA PS1 (2001); Rodin Gallery, Leeum Samsung Museum of Fine Art (2000); ICC Tokyo (2001); and CCA Kitakyushu (1999).[10]

Kimsooja represented Korea for the 55th Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion (2013),[11] and for the 24th São Paulo Biennale (1998),[11] participated in Kassel Documenta 14: ANTIDORON – The EMST Collection (2017), and has taken part in international biennials and triennials: Busan (2016, 2002), Venice (2019, 2013, 2007, 2005, 2001, 1999), Gwangju (2012, 2002,1995), Moscow (2009), Istanbul (1997), Lyon (2002), and Manifesta 1 (1996) among others.[1][12]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sok, Christina Arum (2014). "Kimsooja: A Modern Day Global Nomad Transcending boundaries, re-constructing a global identity". Archived from the original on 26 June 2022 – via kimsooja.com.
  3. ^ a b Rappolt, Mark (5 August 2020). "Artist Kimsooja Plants the Seed of an Idea". ArtReview Asia: 48–55. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b von Drathen, Doris (May 2020). "Kimsooja, Schauendes Denken" [Kimsooja, Observing Thinking]. Kunstforum International (in German). Bd. 267: 199–211. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  5. ^ de Montgazon, Emmanuelle (2019). Lavigne, Emma (ed.). Traversées: Kimsooja: identité, frontière, mémoire, trajectoires artistiques à Poitiers [Crossings: Kimsooja: Identity, Border, Memory, Artistic Trajectories in Poitiers] (in French). Milano: Silvana Editoriale. ISBN 9788836643882. OCLC 1137213770.
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  10. ^ "Kimsooja". Kimsooja's official website.
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